UNDATED – Governor Tom Wolf’s proposal to raise energy taxes could threaten Pennsylvania’s natural gas industry — that is the position of the Marcellus Shale Coalition, responding to Wolf’s budget talk last week. Dave Spigelmyer, president of the coalition, says adding a severance tax, as Governor Wolf has suggested, would be a disadvantage and eventually could pull the industry out of the Commonwealth, “A lot of folks will say that the gas is here and they aren’t going anywhere. Well, I’ll tell you, we had 138 rigs operate here in early 2012, and now we are down to less than 50. We need to nurture this industry while it is still in its very foundation...
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